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inPrint April | 2016
Inspiring excellence in digital print
The Monthly Corporate Newsletter of Intec Printing Solutions
Alison’s 10 year service helps Intec make a difference… March 2016 marked the tenth anniversary at Intec for Alison Ashford, our international consumables sales manager, based in the Intec UK office. As the hub and fount of all knowledge on consumables - and for many of our partners - the person they might know the best at Intec, Alison has proven to be invaluable in helping Intec make a difference, on all fronts over the years. Alison’s career started at Intec in March 2006, with a position in hardware sales, selling the Intec CP2000 and Canon LFPs into the UK market. Since then, she has moved into consumables sales and has sold several million toners – not to mention drums, plates, spare parts, blades, media …and so on! In looking back over the past decade, Alison has calculated that she has sold to clients in over 140 countries - as far apart as Korea, Uruguay, Benin, Swaziland, Russia and beyond. But as anyone who knows Alison well, will tell you, she does like to be kept really busy! Now in the role of consumables sales manager, she would like to thank her co-workers and team mates who have made her daily life at Intec interesting and enjoyable. “I am very thankful that Intec has provided me with opportunities for self-development, and have really enjoyed the last 10 years – goodness knows where the time has gone, but here’s to many more.” Alison
Alison Ashford, celebrating 10 years with the company, with Ian Melville, Intec MD.
Time to celebrate
To celebrate this milestone, the UK team gathered with Alison, in the boardroom - when the company laid on a hot breakfast - all rounded off with a very lush celebration chocolate cake. Ian Melville, Intec MD, toasted Alison by saying, “Thank you Alison, your long service and commitment is very much appreciated and has certainly gone a long way towards the company being able to make a difference.”
Making a difference
Through the consumables side of the business, Intec makes a charitable contribution from all toner sales to projects which have included, over the last 10 years: a school and church / community centre in Sri Lanka, water for maternity hospital in Malawi, maternity unit in Burkina Faso, sponsored children in Uganda, sponsored deaf children to be able to have an education in Ghana …to name but just a few. To our customers, we’d like to thank you all so much, for your valued and sustained business.
10 years’ Celebration chocolate cake
The maternity unit in Burkina Faso which is currently being supported by Intec sponsorship
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Australia showroom ready for action and doing good business Maria Gagetti, director of Intec Australia, reports a brisk first month of trading.
“Since opening our doors for business in March, interest in our digital solutions has been over-whelming, it’s been fantastic having a full diary of appointments and the team has been brilliant in meeting the demand.” Call: +61 1300 292 944 to discuss your needs and to book your demo.
Full range of Intec products permanently available for demonstration at our new premises
Email from a very happy U.S. dealer From our Intec U.S. inbox…
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Master Class #4.1
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Continuing our ‘Master Class’ series, to help you get theget very Our in-depth ‘Master Class’ series is back, helping you thebest veryfrom best your equipment, is part three of an in-depth mulit-part series from Intec your Intec digital this printing equipment. on ‘Advanced Color Control’.
This new series focuses on a number of the key benefits included in the Fiery® XF for Intec - upgrade v6.21 We start with step & repeat business cards, with non-overlapping crop marks and bleed.
This particular feature of the Fiery XF will allow optimization of media coverage by fitting maximum ‘jobs’ per sheet – and also minimize finishing time by reducing the number of cuts required on the guillotine.
6.21 The process, step-by-step
To illustrate the process, we will use our business card sample file which features bleed but not crop marks. We suggest you create a similar file to help follow this guide. To help automate this particular process, the Fiery XF v6.21 now features a new pre-set workflow queue, named ‘Intec Proofing with bleed’, simply drop the job into this queue, pic 2.
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The is populated automatically because the queue options are set with ‘Trim Box including Bleed, as shown in pic 4.
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4. ‘Trim Box including bleed’ in [File] tab and PS/EPS/PDF option and ‘Size definition’ 1. Take full control of bleed, step and repeat and crop marks
Crop marks can now be set with a greater degree of control; not only enabling the actual length of crop mark and their distance to job, but also whether or not crops appear in the gutters and alleys. Bleed can also be controlled to feature specific amounts on all four sides of the jobs, this will enable the butting-up of bleed areas without intermediate crop marks, or removal of intermediate bleed totally, and the butting-up of trim areas, thus minimizing the number of cuts required.
2. Drop the job into the ‘Intec Proofing with bleed’ workflow queue in the Fiery® RIP
As shown in pic 3, the full job area plus its bleed, appears in the RIP preview window.
In the [Printers marks] tab, tick the ‘Crop marks’ check box – the crop marks are added around the media’s bounding box but no bleed is included, as yet pic 5.
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Watch the video tutorial 5. Tick the ‘add crop marks’ check box in the ‘Priners marks’ tab menu
https://youtu.be/rzVHpmwX7Vo Follow the above link to view the 4 minute video demonstrating the process.
3. Our demo artwork shows the ‘job area’ of the business card indicated by the red box line
To ask the RIP to show the job’s bleed, go to the [Layout] tab pic 6, and adjust the desired amount within the ‘Job margin’ co-ordinates, up to the maximum amount …continued
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Master Class #4.1…Continued included within the artwork. Note, the crop marks might overlay the bleed area.
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8. Step-and-repeat the job to fill the output media sheet as required 6. The ‘Job margins’ coordinates controls the amount of bleed shown
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design, this configuration may be perfectly suitable pic 9.
Step and repeat the job with total control over bleed and crop marks
At this point, we can choose to step and repeat the job to fill the output media page size. Typically a standard 85mm x 54mm business card will fit 10-up on an A4 sheet.
However, depending upon the possible absence of bleed content in the design, or accuracy of trimming machinery, it might be desirable to take advantage of the Fiery’s upgraded functionality to remove crop marks and bleed within the alleys and gutters - thus butting the job areas up
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In the [Layout] tab and Step and repeat menu (tick the check box so you are able to action changes), check the ‘Rows and columns’ button and then enter the desired number of rows and columns to suit the job. In our example, we have opted for 2 rows x 3 columns, pic 8. Once ‘step and repeat’ has been applied, a series of gutters and alleys appear between the jobs. The amount of bleed is shared 50% in this space, ie: a 5mm bleed will show 2.5mm in each bleed area. Depending upon the artwork’s
To go about completely removing gutters and alleys, set the ‘Spacing’ to zero ‘0’, pic 11. This additional procedure would reduce the number of cuts required to finish a 10-up business card job, from 14 to only 9. A worthwhile production time saving!
This can be controlled by adjusting the ‘Distance to job’ settings in [Printer marks] tab - you’ll see the marks will move in or out as you make these adjustments, pic 7.
7. The ‘Distance to job’ coordinates controls the positioning and set of the crop marks
11. Setting the ‘Spacing’ to zero, will remove gutter and alley content and butt-up jobs
Bleed design with head to toe orientation Business cards with bleed do look good. So by limiting your design to bleed off on only the top or bottom edge, will offer the opportunity to flip alternate rows of the step and repeated artwork to have the bleed edges butting up to each other. This enables the use of just one cut between cards and will minimize any sign of inaccuracy in trimming. This process was fully covered in our March 2015 MasterClass if you want to refer back to it.
Desperate to know more?
10. Butt-up job areas to remove bleed and crops in ‘gutters and alleys’
Just give me a call and I’ll share our knowledge with you. Mark Baker-Homes
Director Business Development
to each other and seriously reducing the number of cuts required to finish the job! pic 10.
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What a wonderful world! We’re getting great feedback on the wideranging types of products you guys are printing on the ColorSplash series.
A4 landscape brochure
The CS5000 showing invites printed in just white & clear toner on Curious Skin black from Antalis
The world of Intec ColorSplash is a fascinating environment and perfect for producing eye-catching, premium results - delivering a real difference over ordinary printers, and an opportunity for wider profit margins… We’ve showcased a small selection of work here to help demonstrate the capabilities of the ColorSplash series.
Variable data images & text - any envelope type
Tri-fold brochures on coated media
Premium greetings cards on Incada® Silk
Print white and color onto
Supports up to banner, SRA3 & 400 micron media
Virtually any envelope type - including windows
Call Intec for a personal demo or if you have any questions about media types, production techniques which you would like to discuss. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing the end results of your work! continued…
dark t-shirts
400gsm business cards with spot clear toner 1200mm x 297mm banners for BannerPod displays
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More ColorSplash wonders… Whether you run just the basic ColorSplash CS4000 or CS5000 print engines on their own, or have built an integrated production system – including stacker feeders, shingling conveyors, DMP units and more - the world of creative print is very much at your fingertips! We’re hearing fantastic reports from dealers enjoying great results on their ColorSplash printers - particularly on premium quality substrates of up to 400 micron and using 5th color Clear and White toner. Envelopes are scoring high on the success stories too - with window types providing great satisfaction! It’s brilliant to get this feedback - our marketing dept is always happy to receive pics of your printed work to share with the world.
Sheet labels applied to cosmetics containers
Synthetic tagging ideal for luggage & plants
Business cards using White and Clear toner
Invites printed and metallic foiled
forthcoming Exhibitions… 31 May - 10 June Halls 1-17. Although we will not be showing equipment at Drupa we welcome you to contact us to arrange personal appointments. Managing director Ian Melville, director of new business development, Mark BakerHomes and international sales manager, Richard Court, will be at the show on May 31 to June 3. To arrange a personal meeting with any of the guys at the exhibition, call: +44 (0)1202 845 960. Or email: richard.court@intecprinters.com
11 - 13 Oct STAND E10. Demonstrating all the latest in digital colour printing and finishing from our range of products.
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Intec Printing Solutions Limited Unit 11B, Dawkins Road Industrial Estate, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset BH15 4JP UK Tel: +44 (0) 1202 845960 Fax: +44 (0) 1202 845961 www.intecprinters.com
AMERICAS HEADQUARTERS Intec Printing Solutions Corporation 16011 N. Nebraska Avenue Lutz, FL 33549 USA Tel: +1 813-949-7799 Fax: +1 813-949-7886 www.intecprinters.com
AUSTRALIA HEADQUARTERS Intec Printing Solutions Pty Limited 17/63 Wollongong Street Fyshwick ACT 2609 Australia Tel: +61 1300 292 944 www.intecprinters.com
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